Just read the comic, it's much more digestable.
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Just read the comic, it's much more digestable.
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Where do you get all this time to read so much. God knows the last time I read a book...
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
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There are so many books I have to read before I die.
How will I ever find the time?
I suppose I could quit the interwebs, less computer games, get some discipline, stop being a weak cryba
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This is disrepectful and I blame your generationOriginally Posted by Lemur
A POX ON YOUR HOUSE
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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AND A PLAGUE ON YOUR HORSES!!
THATS RIGHT I KNOW MY ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CAN COMPLETE LITERARY QUOTES FROM MEMORY
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I hope you know your English lit better than your French lit becuase I read Bovary and I must admit I found it lacking in every sense of the word
I'm willing to chalk it up to a bad translation but I was upset
I thought you lot were supposed to be good at this
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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You would enjoy Stendhal much better. More your cup of tea, methinks.
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You share one night of wine induced passion with a man and he thinks he knows you
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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I think so indeed. But then, I've got a biblical mind.You share one night of wine induced passion with a man and he thinks he knows you
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Read some Dumas, you bloody heathen.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
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Haz it pictures?
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
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I'm currently deep into Wealth of Nations, so no. After that I have an exciting book called "the students learningenviroment - the teachers possibilities" lined up... And after that, it's another dqte with the tome called "Educational Psychology". It's been a while since I read Stalin's biography, so that one is proably right after that. And when I'm finished with that, I'm sure I have a bunch of new books I'm dying to read...
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
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A simple no would've sufficed
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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Considring I have the reading speed of a lobotomized turtle, I felt like bragging. You may notice how I left out the months it would take me to get through those...A simple no would've sufficed
It's been raining all summer, can't a poor viking have his day in the sun withut you texans walking all over it?
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
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And there I was, thinking you'd weekly read some massive biography of some communist. Especially for bedtime reading.
Luxembourg, Jaurès, Engels? You would, wouldn't you?
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Nah, I only have tomes of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky, which I read years ago and read/skim/flip through again from time to time to brush up/ponder how it fits into all the new stuff I've thought about and learned...
Oh, and I do the same with the communist manifesto, obviously. Wealth of Nations might be added to that list, it's very, very promising so far...
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Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
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I read Ulysses when I was younger but I am afraid I was too young. I suffered from the fact that my actual reading ability was very high but my comprehension of themes symbols and motifs was over my head. For example, I read the Lord of the Rings at the end of 4th Grade. I finished them and did so promptly yet the actual content was often too advanced for my young mind to truly understand as the author intended and details which were important slipped quite easily from my young mind. Re reading them however was much more a treat. Ulysses being such a complex book soared far far above my young self. Therefore, the use of me reading it was near the same as the use of whatever the Rainman reads. Yes, I read it. Yes, I understood the authors words even the big ones. But the usage of Joyce's stream of consciousness and the complexity of his parallels with Odysseus overwhelmed me among other things. Actually i don't even think I could finish it I read maybe a third before I simply gave up in disgust.
As a result reading it again would be like reading if for a first time. So after I read my current novel I may join you.
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You all make me feel so uncultured.
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
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